Media adviser can't recall rape email

The senior media adviser to the South Australian premier has reaffirmed she can't recall receiving an email central to the government's handling of a child sex abuse case in a local school.

Bronwyn Hurrell appeared before the state parliamentary committee investigating the case on Friday and repeated evidence she previously gave to an independent inquiry into the case.

The committee is investigating how the education department bungled its response to the rape of a student in a primary school in 2010, particularly in refusing to inform other parents at the school for more than two years.

It previously emerged that a senior adviser to then education minister and now premier Jay Weatherill forwarded an email about the case to a mystery person, possibly Ms Hurrell.

But Ms Hurrell told the committee on Friday her recollection remained the same as when she was questioned by the independent investigation.

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Ms Hurrell also told the committee she wasn't aware of her computer being taken away to be wiped when she moved with Mr Weatherill from the education minister's office to the premier's office.

After the hearing, Liberal committee member Rob Lucas said the latest evidence confirmed previous testimony that when Mr Weatherill was education minister, he ran a dysfunctional office.

"No-one seems to remember anything about some of the critical issues in relation to this particular child protection issue," he told reporters.

Committee chair and Family First MP Rob Brokenshire said the evidence on Friday showed that processes and procedures within ministerial offices involving critical incidents were "at best absolutely lacklustre" and had not improved since.

The committee will now also seek a copy of a briefing given to Mr Weatherill in 2011 when he visited the school in question to see if it makes mention of the rape case the previous year.